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| + | Title: '''Spatial representations along the longitudinal hippocampal axis: Tradeoff between memory interference and generalization''' | ||
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| + | Speaker: '''Isabel Muzzio''' (Dept. of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania) | ||
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| + | The hippocampus has long been implicated in contextual gating of aversive events. Lesion and neuroanatomical studies indicate that the dorsal | ||
| + | hippocampus specializes in spatial processing while the ventral hippocampus is more involved in emotion and anxiety. However, it is currently unclear if these regions work as independent modules processing distinct types of information or sensory and emotional inputs are integrated along the longitudinal hippocampal axis to provide a comprehensive representation of context. To investigate this question, my lab has conducted in vivo recordings from freely moving mice while animals form and retrieve contextual representations of different emotional valence in the dorsal and ventral hippocampus. We have found evidence that space is faithfully coded in both the dorsal and ventral regions in different manners. In the dorsal hippocampus, sparse finely tuned representations remap in response to the altered valence of a context forming a new stable spatial representation. Conversely, in the ventral hippocampus space is represented through population coding and emotional valence is coded through changes in firing rate. Furthermore, our data show that having a spatial representational gradient along the longitudinal axis favors a tradeoff between memory interference and generalization. | ||
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Revision as of 18:14, 12 November 2013
This Week
Date: 15 November 2013
Time: 09:30 am
Place : Gonda 2303 (2nd Floor Conference Room)
Title: Spatial representations along the longitudinal hippocampal axis: Tradeoff between memory interference and generalization
Speaker: Isabel Muzzio (Dept. of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania)
The hippocampus has long been implicated in contextual gating of aversive events. Lesion and neuroanatomical studies indicate that the dorsal hippocampus specializes in spatial processing while the ventral hippocampus is more involved in emotion and anxiety. However, it is currently unclear if these regions work as independent modules processing distinct types of information or sensory and emotional inputs are integrated along the longitudinal hippocampal axis to provide a comprehensive representation of context. To investigate this question, my lab has conducted in vivo recordings from freely moving mice while animals form and retrieve contextual representations of different emotional valence in the dorsal and ventral hippocampus. We have found evidence that space is faithfully coded in both the dorsal and ventral regions in different manners. In the dorsal hippocampus, sparse finely tuned representations remap in response to the altered valence of a context forming a new stable spatial representation. Conversely, in the ventral hippocampus space is represented through population coding and emotional valence is coded through changes in firing rate. Furthermore, our data show that having a spatial representational gradient along the longitudinal axis favors a tradeoff between memory interference and generalization.
About Us
Introduction
The Integrative Center for Learning and Memory (ICLM) is a multidisciplinary center of UCLA labs devoted to understanding the neural basis of learning and memory and its disorders. This will require a unified approach across different levels of analysis, including;
1. Elucidating the molecular cellular and systems mechanisms that allow neurons and synapses to undergo the long-term changes that ultimately correspond to 'neural memories'.
2. Understanding how functional dynamics and computations emerge from complex circuits of neurons, and how plasticity governs these processes.
3. Describing the neural systems in which different forms of learning and memory take place, and how these systems interact to ultimately generate behavior and cognition.
History of ICLM
The Integrative Center for Learning and Memory formally LMP started in its current form in 1998, and has served as a platform for many interactions and collaborations within UCLA. A key event organized by the group is the weekly ICLM Journal Club. For more than 10 years, graduate students, postdocs, principal investigators, and invited speakers have presented on topic ranging from the molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity, through computational models of learning, to behavior and cognition. Dean Buonomano oversees the ICLM journal club with help of student/post doctoral organizers. For other events organized by ICLM go to http://www.iclm.ucla.edu/Events.html.
Current Organisers:
Walt Babiec (O'Dell Lab)
Past Organisers:
i) Anna Martyina (Aug 2004 - Jun 2008) (Silva Lab)
ii) Robert Brown (Aug 2008 - Jun 2009) (Balleine Lab)
iii) Balaji Jayaprakash (Aug 2008 - Nov 2011) (Silva Lab)
iv) Justin Shobe & Thomas Rogerson (Dec 2011 - June 2013) (Silva Lab)
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